Summary
John Burns is a Chief Software Engineer with 13 years of professional experience building and modernizing large-scale, mission-critical systems across government and enterprise. He designs and implements biometric evaluation platforms and API-first solutions for agencies like the US Department of Homeland Security and CDC, and has led full-stack modernization efforts spanning face, iris and fingerprint matching as well as FHIR API migrations. Skilled in C#, .NET Core, cloud-native deployments, Kubernetes and data-intensive back ends, he pairs hands-on architecture with people leadership—mentoring developers, coordinating DevOps and aligning priorities with senior management. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has built open-source biometric and healthcare tooling, produced Dockerized testing services in Google Cloud, and driven HIPAA-compliant systems that support millions of patients and providers.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Texas
General Class Radio Operator, General Class Radio Operator at Federal Communications Commission
Professionals Forms Developer, Professionals Forms Developer at Oracle